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...tree whose stark and spiked busem...
...Friend, No Worry. With U.S. entry into the war, F.D.R.'s letters reflected his preoccupation with military victory. They range from a 1942 proposal to Admiral Harold R. Stark that naval planners use more ingenuity in thinking of ways to immobilize the Italian fleet ("I can't believe that we must always use the classical offensive against an enemy who seems never to have heard of it") to an attempt to elaborate on his unfortunately uttered "unconditional surrender" by referring to Grant's magnanimous treatment of the defeated...
Chairman Ira H. Poterman '52 last night announced the officers for the drive Stuart Q. Flerlage, Jr. '52 is vice-chairman, Carl M. Sapors '53, publicity director, David L. Stark '53, scheduling director, and Frank H. Wood '51, secretary...
...other sketches round out Orwell's autobiographical reminiscences. A Hanging is a stark glimpse of a Burmese criminal who, as he walks to the gallows, steps aside to avoid a puddle. This instinctive human reaction overwhelms Orwell with "the mystery, the unspeakable wrongness, of cutting a life short when it is in full tide." How the Poor Die is a severely underwritten memoir of Orwell's stay (as a pneumonia patient) in a Paris ward in the '20s, which leads him to the wry conclusion that "it's better to die violently...
...Secret Game, by François Boyer. A stark little story about the game with animals and crosses that two French children thought up after seeing too much death (TIME...